Dezeen Magazine

Concrete Things by Komplot for Nola

Danish designers Komplot have created a set of concrete furniture for Swedish brand Nola.

concrete-things-by-komplot-design-for-nola-1.jpg

Called Concrete Things, the chairs consist of concrete blocks with seats hollowed out, marked with a grid that was inspired by paving.

concrete-things-by-komplot-design-for-nola-6.jpg

The project will be on show at CODEO9 as part of Copenhagen Design Week, which begins tomorrow.

concrete-things-by-komplot-design-for-nola-5.jpg

Six of the blocks are located outside Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen.

concrete-things-by-komplot-design-for-nola-9.gif

More about Komplot on Dezeen: Nobody Chair

concrete-things-by-komplot-design-for-nola-4.jpg

Here's some more information from Komplot:

--

CONCRETE THINGS

By KOMPLOT DESIGN
for NOLA

”Concrete Things” – series of outdoor concrete furniture questioning the relation between the individual and the collective in public space.
 Simple geometric shapes with pavement inspired grid, which deformation keeps memory of somebody once seated in them.

concrete-things-by-komplot-design-for-nola-7.jpg

Drawn in the air by thin lines of steel rods it becomes a weightless wireframe ghost-image of the heavy, very “material” concrete chair…

concrete-things-by-komplot-design-for-nola-2.jpg

Concrete Things:

2009 PURCHASED BY NATIONAL ART FOUNDATION and placed besides the entrance to Rigshospitalet - Copenhagen University Hospital.